Will Parents Send Kids to School or Keep Them Home if Fresno Teachers Strike?

by: Nancy Price, Multimedia Journalist
2023-10-26
Source: GV Wire
10/27/2023

If Fresno teachers go out on strike next week, parents of Fresno Unified school kids will have to decide whether to send them to school or keep them home.

One of the messages from the union, which parents may hear from some teachers on informational picket lines at schools Friday morning, is that strikes are shorter when both teachers and students are out of the classroom.

The district, trying to forestall that, has lined up more than 2,000 substitute teachers and vows that schools will remain open during a strike.

Both sides have a vested interest in keeping kids in or out of school: The district loses state funding through the average daily attendance formula when kids are absent, and teachers lose pay for each day they are out on strike.

Please help put parents in charge of their child’s education by forwarding this article to other parents, family, friends and voters.

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